Posted on 03/14/2005 8:48:17 AM PST by YoungBlackRepublican
A video camera, which is supposed to be monitored by two guards in a command post, shows the two arriving in the holding area between two courtrooms, according to a law enforcement official who viewed the tape.
The video shows Hall guiding Nichols, whose hands are still handcuffed behind his back, face-first into one of two open cells.
Hall releases one cuff and turns Nichols around to unhook the remaining cuff, which is dangling from his wrist. She uncuffs him so he can change from a jail jumpsuit into street clothes.
The muscular, 33-year-old Nichols then lunges at Hall, knocking the petite, 51-year-old woman backward into another cell. Both disappear from camera view because having a camera inside the actual holding cells is prohibited for privacy reasons. Two to three minutes later, Nichols emerges from the cell, holding Hall's gun belt and police radio. He picks up her keys from the floor and locks her inside the cell. Nichols then enters the empty cell.
A couple of minutes later, he emerges dressed in civilian clothes. He locks the door behind him and saunters calmly out of the holding area, carrying the gun belt, according to the law enforcement official who viewed the tape. Nichols appears to know which key to use to unlock the holding area door and enters a vacant courtroom on the eighth floor.
I haven't necessarily been keeping up. Are reports that she was shot in the face incorrect?
They do in certain cases here in the state of Mizzourah...
That is very interesting. Was this what Rush was talking about today? A case before the MO supremes about defendants being in handcuffs?
The guard was shoved and badly injured, not shot.
Oh, I love your sense of humor!
You have answered a lot of questions for us. Where can we get a complete accounting of what went on that horrible day?
I'm not so sure I'd make that bet, but , patience, it will all come out. It just seems like older women in these types of jobs are just collecting a paycheck. They don't have any real intent of doing the job -just smirking, laughing it up at how they're getting over.
There was a timeline printed in the AJC, but no surprise (our media) it contained omissions and mistakes (I therefore didn't keep track of the link).
If I find a good one I'll link you. It will probably be composed by a freeper!
I'm sure we all would like to know where Nichols was between the time he left that parking garage and supposedly got on MARTA and then no sightings until that night when the couple is assaulted.
Was he mingling in plain sight? Was he holed up somewhere? We'll have to wait to find out, I guess.
That is very interesting. Was this what Rush was talking about today? A case before the MO supremes about defendants being in handcuffs?"
I do not know the particulars, but I was referring to the case mentioned by Rush today...so that was my interpretation and may be wrong.
If those people had been doing their jobs (they were AWOL as far as I can tell), no one would have died.
Amen. Well, Hall would have been a goner though. Don't know if she could have been resuscitated during the extended time she was unattended to. BUT ... she should not have been alone with the suspect, already known to be a violent criminal.
Honestly, this was all preventable.
Oh, okay!@$#&*......
Come on now, she was watching him dress/undress. I can just see this silly woman thinking she's getting a private show with a big grin on her face - a dumb-founded look without a clue at how vulnerable she is, a terrible, terrible PC joke.
There was an interview on wsb radio last night with a Renee Rockwell, iirc. who said that he had been through the drill around ten times during his two trials.
"What was the security before the sheriff's office beefed up? Someone in a wheelchair and a frying pan? "
ALMOST FELL OUT OF MY CHAIR...LOL....We laugh...but really...I wonder what the security was BEFORE they requested more....
"And the cops are not permitted to wear their guns into the courthouse. So once the slaughter happened, they had to stand in line to retrieve their guns. "
I didn't know this....this little tidbit actually explains a lot...
And, did not search the parking garage because somebody told them that he went thataway in the Honda.
Also, two police cars did not stop for the bloody AJC reporter, whom the perp had just attacked, who tried to flag them down.
Unfortunately, Atlanta is not the only city that has a policy forbidding policemen to wear their weapons into the courthouse. Ridiculous, imo.
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